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-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt30
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/reg.c7
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index e47c0ff8ba7..8365f52a354 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,31 @@ be removed from this file.
---------------------------
-What: old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+When: March 2010
+
+Why: This was inherited by the CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY code,
+ and currently serves as an option for users to define an
+ ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 code for the country they are currently
+ present in. Although there are userspace API replacements for this
+ through nl80211 distributions haven't yet caught up with implementing
+ decent alternatives through standard GUIs. Although available as an
+ option through iw or wpa_supplicant its just a matter of time before
+ distributions pick up good GUI options for this. The ideal solution
+ would actually consist of intelligent designs which would do this for
+ the user automatically even when travelling through different countries.
+ Until then we leave this module parameter as a compromise.
+
+ When userspace improves with reasonable widely-available alternatives for
+ this we will no longer need this module parameter. This entry hopes that
+ by the super-futuristically looking date of "March 2010" we will have
+ such replacements widely available.
+
+Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: old static regulatory information
When: 2.6.29
Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
@@ -17,9 +41,7 @@ Why: The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
* JP
* EU
and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
- set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
- some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
- can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
+ set.
Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
---------------------------
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 9afc9168748..ac048a158d8 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -122,9 +122,14 @@ static const struct ieee80211_regdomain *cfg80211_world_regdom =
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY
static char *ieee80211_regdom = "US";
+#else
+static char *ieee80211_regdom = "00";
+#endif
+
module_param(ieee80211_regdom, charp, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ieee80211_regdom, "IEEE 802.11 regulatory domain code");
+#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY
/*
* We assume 40 MHz bandwidth for the old regulatory work.
* We make emphasis we are using the exact same frequencies
@@ -2152,7 +2157,7 @@ int regulatory_init(void)
#else
cfg80211_regdomain = cfg80211_world_regdom;
- err = regulatory_hint_core("00");
+ err = regulatory_hint_core(ieee80211_regdom);
#endif
if (err) {
if (err == -ENOMEM)